Author: Kathryn Knight Sonntag
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TENDING GRIEF AT THE GREAT SALT LAKE, A RITUAL by Kathryn Knight Sonntag
Clouds unspool above light Departing. Salt makes diviners of gulls, Tiny archways of bones, pooling socketsLong emptied by sun’s fire. A circle Of strangers, we imbue our grief Into stick, feather, and stone. I long To be emptied, to not fear this cold, which is To not fear its memory. This lake is memory. The couple Next to me sees into the watery Expanse…